A pair of new judges are coming to the Okanagan, including one heading to Penticton91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s courthouse and another to Kelowna91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s.
Judge Monica McParland, heading to Kelowna91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s chambers, is set to be sworn in on Aug. 28. McParland earned a cum laude in her Bachelor of Law at the University of Ottawa in 1998.
She has represented both the federal and provincial Crown, and joined Pushor Mitchell LLP in Kelowna, initially tackling drug prosecutions for the federal Crown. In 2014, she shifted to family law.
Judge Michelle Daneliuk, who will sit in Penticton Law Court chambers, is scheduled to be sworn in on Sep. 6. She received her Bachelor of Law from the University of Alberta and worked as a criminal defence lawyer in Edmonton for 10 years before moving to Victoria in 2005.
There, she established an office as a sole practitioner in criminal law, which has primarily consisted of large cases involving multiple defendants, according to the Provincial Court of B.C.
Daneliuk will be filling a vacancy opened up by senior Judge Gale Sinclair, who is expected to work intermittently into early 2018.
In its announcement, the Provincial Court also introduced a new Judge Mariane Ruth Armstrong, heading to Kamloops, and two new senior judges.
Judge Wilfred Klinger and Judge William Gordon MacDonald will both sit throughout the province as senior judges, both appointed on one-year terms.
Klinger and MacDonald were initially appointed as judges in 1979 and 1982 respectively and were initially appointed as senior judges in 2009.
dustin.godfrey@pentictonwesternnews.com
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